I’ll tell you about Forza Italia’s Berlusconi pride in Paestum
Who was there and what was said at the Berlusconi Day organized by Forza Italia in Paestum. Paola Sacchi's note
Yesterday, September 29th, as in the masterpiece song by Battisti and Mogol, which Silvio Berlusconi had, among his many successes, also as a soundtrack, a gift by chance, for his birthdays, the blue people woke up and… thought of him . He filled the hotels of Paestum, starting with the Hotel Ariston, to celebrate his first birthday since he no longer existed. Yesterday, September 29, Cav would have turned 87. But it is not nostalgia that drives the three days of Forza Italia, "A future of freedom", in the ancient city of Magna Graecia. “The best way to remember our President and founder is to move forward towards a future of freedom. Fight the battles for which he has always fought”, says the national secretary of FI Antonio Tajani. Then, an autobiographical note from the deputy prime minister: "Without him, today I would be a less capable foreign minister." The Italian leader who will reappear at the February congress warns: “We, united by loyalty towards him, will not disappear, we will remain and grow. We are a crucial part of this government that won elections, where we want to stay for another 4 years. We are proud of our roots. Since 1994 they have been saying that we will disappear. We will not disappear, we will grow and we will demonstrate it at the European Championships."
Blue pride. In memory of the man who in the letter, read by Tajani, the 5 children define as "the best father, for you the founder, a great entrepreneur. For many 'Silvio'”. Blue pride for a statesman, Italian and international leader, an "inclusive" figure, as the former director, Augusto Minzolini, wrote yesterday in "Il Giornale".
Touching is the passage in which the great actor Giancarlo Giannini, reading the much applauded speech given by Berlusconi to the US Congress, focuses on the memory of 'Silvio' brought by his father to the American cemetery of Nettuno to pay homage to "those young people who fell for our freedom ”. A memory that contains all the Atlanticist, as well as pro-European, Western DNA of Cav.
Commemoration and de facto launch of the electoral campaign for the European elections. Collaboration for another 4 years in the government of Giorgia Meloni, who in a note pays homage to Berlusconi, "the great fighter". Tajani assures: “But which technical government?! We will go until the end of the legislature." And yet competition is competition at the next European Championships, where we run with proportional representation. And more than ever they also represent a national test of the balance of power within the right-centre coalition.
Tajani, a structured politician with a prestigious curriculum in Europe, much more determined than the eternal contender at the center Matteo Renzi, leader of IV and former prime minister, intends to strengthen and renew his leadership by making FI more inclusive and contestable internally, as some critics in the party had asked him.
In connection with Bruno Vespa on "5 minutes" on Rai1 he outlines the future blue identikit, internal organizational and in the political strategy of "permanent center of gravity", with the allies and across the board. First of all, the support of the Berlusconi family is reiterated: "Today (yesterday, ed. ) we remembered the President with a beautiful letter that his 5 children sent us, encouraging him to move forward and continue his path. A sign of great friendship and closeness for what Marina Berlusconi defined as one of her father's greatest achievements." He announces: “We will hold the congress at the end of February, I will propose to the National Council to modify the Statute and elect 4 deputy secretaries. In short, a contestable, democratic, open party that cannot be led by a single man, but must have the strength of many women and men who want to build the house of moderates".
The Italian leader defines it: "That 'permanent center of gravity' that Battiato spoke about in the song, a center that is a cornerstone of the political system that is not influenced by either one or the other." It is therefore at the centre, that the objective competition at the European Championships will take place also with the allies Fdi and Lega. That center where spaces could be opened up. The League, according to the physiological dynamics of politics, is, while maintaining its vocation as a pragmatic, post-ideological and transversal party across social groups, in turn also committed to filling the area left uncovered on the right by FdI, for the role institutional of Prime Minister Meloni, at the same time president of Fratelli d'Italia. In short, a challenging European risk in which the coalition will at the same time have to maintain the necessary unity of government majority.
But now it's time for the blue people who invaded Paestum. And this a few days after the youth initiative in Gaeta, with Maurizio Gasparri, vice-president of the Senate, a pillar of FI, on tour for membership. Alessandro Battilocchio – head of the electoral office, president of the parliamentary commission of inquiry for safety in cities and suburbs, one of Tajani's new strongmen, together with the organizational manager Francesco Battistoni and Raffaele Nevi, the spokesperson, Paolo's number two Barelli, leading the group in the Chamber – with Startmag said yesterday morning he was happily surprised by the fact that Paestum painted itself blue. “For days we have been struggling to book hotels, where we have sold out. There is more presence than expected to remember 'Silvio', a multifaceted, extraordinary, exceptional figure", says Battilocchio, who likes to define himself as a "Craxian-Berlusconian". In 2004 he was the youngest MEP, elected in the new PSI of Gianni De Michelis, an ally of Berlusconi. TO
Paestum in the session "Formidable those years", together with the Minister of Reforms Elisabetta Casellati, Rita Dalla Chiesa, deputy group leader in the Chamber, speaks Stefania Craxi, Italian senator, president of the Foreign and Defense commission, who was alongside Prime Minister Meloni in recent days to the UN. There are the president of the ABI, Antonio Patuelli, the "CEOs" of the economic and business world, the representatives of the categories, the secretary of the CISL, Luigi Sbarra. And naturally the Italian general staff will speak, starting from the group leaders, Barelli, Licia Ronzulli, president of the senators, the head of the EU delegation, Fulvio Martusciello. Ronzulli yesterday morning in Milan was next to the Northern League president Attilio Fontana and the leader of the League, Matteo Salvini, deputy prime minister and minister of Infrastructure and Transport, for the inauguration by the Region of the "Berlusconi Belvedere", on the 39th floor of Palazzo Lombardia.
Speeches are expected today from the coordinator of the Italian departments, former group leader at Montecitorio, Alessandro Cattaneo, from the University Minister Annamaria Bernini, from the presidents of the South, from Calabria, Roberto Occhiuto, and from Sicily, Renato Schifani. Tomorrow the president of the EPP, Manfred Weber, will speak. Battilocchio explains: “FI is a structured force in the EPP, the largest European group. And we will fight to ensure that the same majority of Popular, Conservatives and Liberals that elected Tajani as president of the European Parliament will win in Europe." Marta Fascina, FI deputy and Berlusconi's partner, remained in Arcore – where yesterday, as the agencies report, Fedele Confalonieri, Gianni Letta, Adriano Galliani, Marcello Dell'Utri were next to Berlusconi -, defined by Paolo Berlusconi as "inconsolable ” in his pain, he entrusted his message of “love” for “Silvio” to social media. That is, the president, "there is only one President", chant the young people, keeping pace with it, the usual slogan. “Marta will join us when she wants,” says Gasparri, on the sidelines of the event (also with the voices in concert of Al Bano and Katia Ricciarelli) of the Italian pride. Since yesterday, September 29th.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/vi-racconto-lorgoglio-berlusconiano-di-forza-italia-a-paestum/ on Sat, 30 Sep 2023 07:42:04 +0000.